单词 | pullery |
释义 | † pulleryn.1 Obsolete. Domestic fowl collectively; = poultry n. 1. Also: a place where domestic fowl are reared; = poultry n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) > collective pullen1329 poultrya1387 pullailec1400 pullayly1440 volaille1444 pullery1488 roost1827 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > poultry-farm poultry1429 pullery1552 palenque1707 hennery1833 fowlery1848 poultry farm1859 bird farm1876 1488 Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 90/2 xviij pulare price of þe pece iij d. a1500 Promptorium Parvulorum (King's Cambr.) 416 (MED) Pullery [1440 Harl. 221 Pullayly, or pullay, altile, volatile]. 1535 Bp. Gardiner in Chron. Calais (1846) 165 That such pullery and wylde-foule maye passe by Graveling as ye require. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pultrye or pullerye feadynge at large, pascilis, passalis. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pullerye keper, gallinarius. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. I2 They..had in one night..all the whole progenie of their Pullerie taken away. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 59 Thou art afraid of kites for thy pullary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). pulleryn.2 Tanning. A place in which wool, hair, and bristles are removed from hides. Also: a company engaged in this process. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with skins or hides > [noun] > place where hair is removed lime-pit1591 smoke-house1797 pullery1869 1869 Ohio Farmer 4 Dec. 770/2 The only place which bears evidence of vitality and activity in the sheep business, is at the ‘Pullery’. 1888 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 29 May 1/5 There is a cracker factory, a soap factory..a wool pullery, a tannery, and a sodawater factory all of which are doing a profitable business. 1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 1 The relations between the soaking process and the subsequent processes of the beamhouse or pullery, and the tannery are close. 1963 E. M. Pohle in W. von Bergen Wool Handbk. (ed. 3) I. ix. 668 The pulling is conducted in the pulleries which..are connected with the large slaughter-houses. 1997 Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 19 Oct. a11/2 Almost two years have passed since the company last operated as a pullery, where wool is chemically removed from lambskins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11488n.21869 |
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